Not now - saw him a couple months ago. Nice family.
All those guys also won titles and/or MVPs/DPOY with tons of All-NBA. It's not apples and oranges. Being the biggest/most athletic used to be more important in the scope of the league. Drummond has 1 3rd team all NBA.
I agree, but with the stipulation HOF are usually on a winning team for part of their career at least. His next team is key. This year, he went for the money again. Can’t blane him, but trade offs are involved. His life style is very good right now.
He's 27. He's just entering his prime. Provided he avoids injury he's going to a bunch of years closer to 1-3 rather than 7-8.
Agreed, if he wants to make the Hall, he absolutely needs to go to a winner next contract. He'll still be in his prime for another 3-4 years.
Those are through 8 seasons for all those guys, so they were all in their primes at that time (depending on age of entering the league, which admitted he's a couple years younger than most of those guys).
Yeah, I saw him too. It was at the airport. His family does appear to be nice and normal.
If nothing else he needs to find himself in a better city... Middletown to Detroit to Cleveland...woof (storrs excluded for obvious reasons)
That 2012 team was weird. It made no sense they were as bad as they were.
Some of my best memories of him at UConn were the times he stripped guards at half court and then went in for break away dunks. I remember him doing it a few times and thought you don't usually see guys that big do that.
Indeed if he retired or died today he wouldn't make it in. But we're projecting.
He was mocked as a potential #1 by most services if he never went to college. I’m just happy he’s an Alum. He might have cost himself a couple million going to college at all that year.
I mean, not to defend Melo too much, but he has olympic rings and led the Nuggets to the Western Conference Finals (only to lose to Kobe), and led a 50+ win Knicks team.
Yeah Melo is not a good example. One of the more diverse offensive games the NBA has seen. If Andre hooks onto a great team in his waning years he should be a HOFer, his rebounding numbers are the greatest of all time when accounting for the time period skews that Wilt and Russell have.
And you would know ..
Carmelo has an ncaa championship as a freshman, gold medals, 10 all star selections and 6 all nba selections. He was also respected as a great player for many years of his career. Drummond just isn’t seen that way.
melo 10x all-star, 6x all nba, 4 olympic teams, and one (yuck) ncaa championship.
dude! i was just checking out alex english stats as you posted bcuz an uncle always called him alex english! i call him marshmellow, but i've heard him called the 'where the basketball goes to die' guy. you nailed it.
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Mid range, post up, 3 point on good shooting percentages, plus mastered iso when teams keyed on him. Not that crazy of a statement.
not to bad-mouth a uconn guy, but you could make the argument that drummond isn't even a top-10 center in the nba right now...
